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by Lucia De Luca VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Speak My Language" by Lucia De Luca “Is your dog’s name Oreo?”I message random Bumble guy He starts speaking my languagewhen his reply is a stanza “Roses are red,violets are blue,my dog’s name is Chewbacca,but his nickname is Chew.Oreo was a great guess,your curly hair is awesome nevertheless.”Continue reading “Speak my Language”

by Sally Anderson Boström VOICEMAIL POEMS · “Sons and Solstice” by Sally Anderson Boström

by Alice Agro-Paulson VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Seafared" by Alice Agro-Paulson Alice Agro-Paulson is a Brooklyn-based developmental editor, story coach, and poet. Her work has been supported by Roots.Wounds.Words. & Tin House, and has appeared in HAD, Spark to Flame, and is forthcoming in Eunoia Review. Alice is currently working on a hybrid speculative memoir and can be found onContinue reading “Seafared”

by Katie Ellen Bowers VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Sacral" by Katie Ellen Bowers My hips are so heavy. At night they ache;they groan, as if to signal that rain is coming They say: This is for the burden of those whohave laid on and have pressed against,for those who loved you or used youor missed youContinue reading “Sacral”

by Dynas Johnson VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Night Tempo — A Triptych" by Dynas Johnson all these little fires bubbling in my throat.holographic. plasma straight through my veins.homeward highways into the burning center of itall: I miss every summer I only dreamed. too manycolors to give names to. I pull the yarn bundleby bundle. it pilesContinue reading “Night Tempo — A Triptych”

by Gerard Manogue VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Missed Call" by Gerard Manogue Wednesday morning before work, I missed a call from an area code I didn’t recognize. It was probably a scam or a telemarketer, there are a lot of those these days, but who knows? Maybe it was someone important: My boss? The FBI? TheContinue reading “Missed Call”

by Em Beckert VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Luxe Baby Weekend" by Em Beckert Morning comes like a Hall and Oates song.There’s a blackberry seed in my tooth-hole.I guess, at some point, my filling fell out. My phone says to me lover. My bodysays, about the whiskey, don’t do it again.We gathered under the strawberry moon. MyContinue reading “Luxe Baby Weekend”

by Allen Means VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Colorado" by Allen Means the first boy who doesn’t love me back laughs himself across the bridge and tells me to hold my breath. he holds my elbow as i step up onto his skateboard and i tell him i must look stupid for trying. the park benches areContinue reading “Colorado”

by Tina Zafreen Alam VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Cause I Need You Pt 4: The Roots" by Tina Zafreen Alam soundtrack: eve, the roots & is this turningback time never heardit resurrect dry wiltedfresh rain tender streamsunlight thaws coldcan you feel itwarm brush lips warmkiss every numb awayyou roughed eve out of wonderdulled splendourkeep saying dullContinue reading “‘Cause I Need You Pt. 4: The Roots”

by Adrian Dallas Frandle VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Calyx" by Adrian Dallas Frandle after “Housekeeping” by Marilynne Robinson O, make of my teeth. a sieve.drink. from this. font of mercy.make of my body. a community. lips nets. filter all impurity.every virus. every bruised siltedeye. sifted. through. every hurt. sold. let tears collected. saltcrust.make from them. crystalized.Continue reading “Calyx”